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Former American sprinter Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400m champion, has died aged 74, The PUNCH reports.
Evans suffered a stroke last week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, and has been on life support at the Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan-Remo.
Retired footballer and 1980 AFCON winner Segun Odegbami, a close friend of Evans, confirmed the death of the retired athlete and coach on WhatsApp platform Family United By Sports Wednesday night.
Odegbami wrote, “For my brother and friend, Lee Edward Evans – it is sunset!”
Evans died while in a coma and breathing through a ventilator.
Our correspondent learnt his children
Views: Visits 6 By Chief Segun Odegbami The above is the title of my broadcast on social media two days ago. I am repeating it here only as a guide to what has developed since then. The article generated global interest except in the sports fraternity in Nigeria that does not seem to appreciate the enormity of the matter or the global citizen involved. Even athletes that he groomed, or guided, to achieve their successes in international sports were discussing other pedestrian issues rather than join in expressing some concern or even just escalating the issue of the health situation of a co-Olympian whose technical contributions to sports and to the lives of many of the most successful Nigerian athletes is almost unprecedented in the country’s history.
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Published 14 May 2021
Former American sprinter and double Olympics gold medallist Lee Evans, 74, is on life support in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, after suffering “an unusual kind of stroke,”
The PUNCH reports.
This was made known in an appeal posted on WhatsApp platform Family United by Sports by ex-international Segun Odegbami on Thursday.
The appeal titled ‘Lee Evans must not die: Appeal to the US government,’ Odegbami said the American, who coached the Nigerian athletics team for several years, was bedridden at Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan-Remo.
Evans had been working as a volunteer coach at the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy, in Wasimi Orile, Ogun State.
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